Programme Management Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Programme Management (Program Management)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Programme Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 15 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 2.38% - 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% - 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £463 - £386
25th Percentile £513 - £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 - £488
75th Percentile £575 - £547
90th Percentile £604 - £579
South Yorkshire median daily rate £537 - £638

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Programme Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 605 378 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.88% 89.57% 96.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 195 237
10th Percentile £313 £250 £388
25th Percentile £400 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £587
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -10.63% +11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £663
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £523 £587
% change year-on-year -8.13% -11.06% +17.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £14.66 £13.14 £18.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £18.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -1.23% +6.58%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £24.88
90th Percentile £25.15 - £28.70
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
% change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Programme Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Programme Management job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Programme Management
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Programme Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Programme Management

Programme Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in Sheffield over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Management in Sheffield

Programme Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Programme Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Programme Management

Programme Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (53.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Banking
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
1 5 (33.33%) Lead
2 4 (26.67%) Lead Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Lead Security Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Security Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Security Solutions Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Design Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Programme Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
5 1 (6.67%) PMO Lead
5 1 (6.67%) PMO Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) OAuth
1 4 (26.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (26.67%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Architectural Patterns
1 8 (53.33%) Cryptography
1 8 (53.33%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (53.33%) Decision-Making
1 8 (53.33%) Identity Access Management
1 8 (53.33%) Incident Response
1 8 (53.33%) Project Governance
1 8 (53.33%) SABSA
1 8 (53.33%) Secrets Management
1 8 (53.33%) Security Operations
1 8 (53.33%) Technical Debt
1 8 (53.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 8 (53.33%) TOGAF
1 8 (53.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 7 (46.67%) Computer Science
2 7 (46.67%) Dependency Management
2 7 (46.67%) Privileged Access Management
2 7 (46.67%) Software Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) Thought Leadership
2 7 (46.67%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) CISM
1 8 (53.33%) CISSP
1 8 (53.33%) TOGAF Certification
2 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 7 (46.67%) Master's Degree
2 7 (46.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) PMO
1 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (26.67%) Centrify
2 4 (26.67%) CyberArk
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) SAP